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Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by greycol »

RajT88 wrote: post #290
jdc0589 wrote: post #267

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jellyfin was pretty plug and play for me

If you want it accessible outside your house, the two most common options are NGINX + LetsEncrypt or Tailscale. (or you make your peace with sending your login details in cleartext)

VPN is also common in those discussions, it's more setup on the client side but can win on security. Of course there'd be a lot of people in trouble if you couldn't trust tailscale to be better than a beginner selfhoster on security so it's still a good goto option.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by kortilla »

infecto wrote: post #18
kortilla wrote: post #8

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Plex is a piece of shit that rams dumb streaming stuff down your throat each time you sign in on a TV. This coincidentally happens every other month or so when the app seems to forget the account it’s signed into. It’s becoming hostile for people who want to work from their media alone.

I am not so sure. Have used it for years for free( I have need to stream on the go) and it’s always been no issue. On first setup you are give the option to display streaming options or only your library. I cannot remember the last time I was logged. Super stable and zero time spent setting it up. On the flip side Jellyfin has never worked that well out of the box for me. Always some fiddling around and even when I g…

You must not use the TV apps. Both the Samsung and the LG ones suffer from this.

I was not suggesting Jellyfin was better because the apps don’t exist in any meaningful sense for TVs.

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Post by kortilla »

Handy-Man wrote: post #10
kortilla wrote: post #8

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Plex is a piece of shit that rams dumb streaming stuff down your throat each time you sign in on a TV. This coincidentally happens every other month or so when the app seems to forget the account it’s signed into. It’s becoming hostile for people who want to work from their media alone.

Haven't been logged out of the app on my Apple TV in 4 years now.

Apple TV is not a TV. It’s the terrible quality of all of their TV apps that leads to this behavior.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by entropicdrifter »

Arainach wrote: post #307
entropicdrifter wrote: post #282

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I can do all of this stuff with my Jellyfin server for the yearly cost of a domain name

This thread was a "why does remote access matter", not a comparison of Jellyfin and Plex. I run both and Jellyfin is very clearly an open source project. By that I mean that the interesting technical problem (streaming) is implemented rather well and there is a UI that technically has buttons to expose the things it does while simultaneously not being good at many of the things people use Plex for. Jellyfin's remote…

I use a reverse proxy for Jellyfin remote access, people saying you need a VPN or Tailscale (which is also a VPN) are unnecessarily paranoid IMO. That said, I'm a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience and a lifelong tinkerer, and I've set up an OpenWRT One as my primary router, so my firewall is more up to date and useful than 99% of consumers and I'm comfortable restoring a PC if it gets hacked.

But maybe more importantly IMO, Jellyfin doesn't have a central server that would serve as a high-priority target for hackers. Plex may have funding and full-time devs, but they're also relying on security through obscurity, which is hardly best-practice. Their central servers were hacked 10 months ago and passwords were leaked. For that to happen to me, hackers would have to be interested in my little Intel N100-powered server running from my house with maybe 10 daily active users. On top of that, Jellyfin's team have generally been quite fast at addressing all known high severity vulnerabilities because the project is open source. Everyone can see the code, so anyone can fix an exploit as soon as it's found.

As far as sharing access with my friends, I just ask them to put in the username/password they'd like on my phone in person for account creation, then I text them all the details about the URL for my Jellyfin instance, how to set up their smart TV app for it, etc.

I can access my Jellyfin instance from almost any smart TV in the world with the official apps because I followed their official guide and set up with a reverse proxy instead of Tailscale.

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Post by szmarczak »

phsau wrote: post #262
szmarczak wrote: post #195

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It's another vibe coded slop

It's already significantly better than Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. Give it a try. The development team is active on their Discord. A lot of users are testing it. It's currently running a PB+ media library (which neither Jellyfin nor Emby can run) with native clients across multiple platforms. It will unseat Jellyfin.

> The development team

You mean the one guy who prompts Claude?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by KingMob »

abnercoimbre wrote: post #157
KingMob wrote: post #119

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Could be, but it also had problems on my mac. I had to abandon Jellyfin for Emby over it. Every so often, Jellyfin would choke ingesting a video. Worse, it would hang the whole ingestion process, so videos later in the list wouldn't get processed. Restarting didn't fix it, either, I had to delete the problematic video (which notably, played ok in things like VLC and IINA).

Tell me more about Emby. Solid replacement?

Mostly. It hasn't had the problem of choking on a any videos, at least. Some features are locked behind a paywall, but nothing I need.

Biggest issue is it's not designed around transitory servers, like a laptop. It really wants a server with a static IP. Unfortunately, JellyFin had the exact same problem, so that's a wash. Mostly it just means logging in and out of the TV client every so often.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by hypercube33 »

baggachipz wrote: post #240
jorvi wrote: post #201

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My biggest beef with Plex is that they've pivoted away from being a media server first and are trying to change into a streaming platform first, and because managers inside the company have to show KPI, they're stuffing the streaming buttons and sections and recommendations in everywhere. Really frustrating because the media server experience is still by far the best. It really needs to have a "classic" toggle where…

> It really needs to have a "classic" toggle where all the [enshittified] crap is disabled. This can apply to almost any modern application.

Try the Plezy app or the web server URL directly. For now it's far better. I believe you can disable the streaming garbage to some degree.
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